Burger King made a statement that they're not using surge pricing, rather they're reducing the cost during slow hours. Uh... That's surge pricing since they already raised the "regular" cost quite a lot.
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The whole fast lane argument again...
Wait until it hits your groceries, too.
Price tags, which are normally printed out individually for items using paper and ink, are slowly being replaced by digital displays that grocers say will increase productivity and potentially lower prices for consumers.
They always throw that line out there.
Bullshit. It never serves the customer’s interest. Just like every big-box store was supposed to lower prices and increase variety for the consumer, instead they drove small stores out of business, reduced variety to save costs, sell the same junk, and now control pricing where you no longer have choices.
* Pricing can change for a variety of reasons.
Not good enough there, King.
SCOTUS said it’s okay for ~~presidents~~ kings to do this.
‘Berder King
'It's good to be the Burger King.'
Cancel order. Every. Time.
A billion times to the quadrillionth power. Until the heat death of the universe, beyond the decay of protons and the evaporation of the last black hole in the degenerate era.
I am still here. I am still cancelling.
Pricing can change for a variety of reasons
Gee, thanks
How long before pricing starts going up whenever you start an order?
Well you did increase demand when you started the ordering process
/s
I'd say the real concern here is that someone is spending over $30 at Burger King. For that much I could have gone somewhere good.
People have families that also need to eat.
That's just it, though. A lot of fast food places have been pricing themselves up to the point where they're meeting the price of proper sit-down restaurants. The only thing they have to offer at this point is convenience. It's just not worth buying fast food any more.
Last time I went to Taco Bell, I paid $27 for two people, and was told to wait in a parking space. 25 minutes later, they brought out our cold stale food. I could phone in a takeout order from the fancy local Mexican restaurant up the road for almost the same price, same wait, and better food. So convenience is not even part of it, at least where I live.
Judging by the last time I went to Burger King that $30 probably paid for 2 people to eat. There are plenty of good restaurants I can go to and get an entree for $15 or possibly less.
I can feed my family at a sit down restaurant for about the same price as fast food, and the food is better on top of it...
I keep hearing this sentiment but I've yet to find a single real world example.
Not around here, take out is going to be $40-50+ for two people even at cheap places.
Expedia pricing literally went up $300 between starting checkout and finalizing, within 10-12 minutes.
God damn predatory horseshit.
That may be because they don't check the tickets every minute. Once they check it, they get the current price. You should use the airline or hotel site anyway. It's usually cheaper.
And then you don't have to deal with Expedia when something goes wrong, you can just deal directly with the company whose lobby you are standing in.
I'm sad to say that Costco travel did the same thing to me and my wife. We cancelled our plans. Homey don't play that.
Just gotta say, I'm real happy I'm not the only one that still drops Homey D. Clown references.
That's the first time I've thought of it in years, but it fits my sentiment perfectly.
One would think they could prevent price changes during the order process... This is just gouging for a little more money from the customer. I'd be surprised if they didn't do it systematically.
Bad business practice too. Are those few cents worth them considering not to choose BK next time? As well as everyone they show/post the picture they took to?
I have a WILD solution. Stop giving them money. And somehow this never occurs to anyone on here.
The enshittification continues in ever more surprising and confusing ways.
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I need more context here. I know of talk about dynamic pricing, but heard they walked that back. I mean would you get the same notification if you like added bacon or a dessert on the final menus right before you hit total?
Wendy’s walked theirs back after mistakingly misadvertising their “discount” scheme in a way that was construed as surge pricing. Heh, we’ll see.
For this, can only find the Reddit source online.
Maybe they did an online order then changed the location?
It seems evident they took a picture of an order summary on a kiosk, looking at the UI as well as the reflection on the screen.